If the coaches want him back then I'm all for it.
He didn't do anything wrong. He just made a rash decision and quit. If any of you have ever played any kind of college athletics then you know how hard and different it is.
Sounds like he knows he made a mistake in his eyes and wants to come back. I have no problem with that.

On board with the preferred walk-on bit. Wouldn't be too pleased to hold a scholarship for him. That said, I'm sure some other school will give him a scholarship. That might be better for him as I can't imagine his teammates at OU would welcome him back after he quit like that.

On board with the preferred walk-on bit. Wouldn't be too pleased to hold a scholarship for him. That said, I'm sure some other school will give him a scholarship. That might be better for him as I can't imagine his teammates at OU would welcome him back after he quit like that.

NateHeupel, you're a ****ing genius!! Seriously, I think that's a great idea. Make him earn it back and prove himself. Don't punish him with Schmitty necessarily, just make him earn it back.

He can get student loans, and if money is really that big of an issue he can get pell grants, too. Bottom line, you earn a scholarship with a solid HS career, but you keep it with hard work and commitment to the team. He's got no currency left on the former or the latter. If he really wants it, he'll prove it.

If I'm being perfectly honest, I don't think so. The coaches came about this >< close to losing the team entirely last year. They'll probably be paranoid of the effect on the team.

That said, I think you give him a shot. Dusty Dvoracek put a kid in a coma and we let him back. He did what it took to pull his shit together, and I'm absolutely proud to call him a fellow Sooner alumnus. If we're going to forgive that, we have to forgive this.

Not sure if he might be coming back or not. Looks like he talked with Patton around 10 days ago. From from the tweets it sounds like Patton may have given him an option to come back. Although, he's been pretty quite about it since then.

I dont have a problem with him being allowed to come back, but if it were me I would make it clear that he is on his last strike. One ****up and he is gone, whether its academics, getting in trouble with the police, or just flaking out - he is out the door.